Morning Bites: The Bell Jar at 50, Old Whales, André Aciman on Lopate, Early Modernism, and More

“You can call a book Freedom if you already have this platform where people are hyping you up as solution to America’s dearth of novelists. If you’re Franzen, you can have sort of this pompous, vain title.” – Adam Mansbach talks to Flavorwire.